Dental health care utilization among young adults who were in societal out-of-home care as children: a Swedish national cohort study

Berlin, MarieStockholms universitet,Sociologiska institutionen,National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden (författare)

Dental health care utilization among young adults who were in societal out-of-home care as children : a Swedish national cohort study

We used Swedish national registers to analyse dental health care among young adults with childhood experience of out‐of‐home care (OHC), in Cox regression analyses. All 1.7 million Swedish residents born in 1980–1994 were included, of whom 4% had been in OHC. The population was followed up in the Dental Health Register from age 20 to 29, during the period 2009–2014. We found that persons with short or long OHC experience made emergency dental care visits more often than their majority‐population peers: 17–23% versus 9–10%, (adjusted Hazard ratios [HR:s] 1.60–2.02); they more often had tooth extractions, 9–12% versus 3% (HR:s 2.33–3.03); but less regularly visited a dentist for planned check‐ups, 61–77% versus 80–87% (HR:s 0.76–0.78). Since dental health in young adulthood reflects dental health and dental care in childhood, the findings of this study call for improved preventive dental health care for children in OHC.

Mensah, TitaMalmö universitet,Odontologiska fakulteten (OD)(Swepub:mau)ag1631 (författare)
Lundgren, FridaNational Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), Stockholm, Sweden (författare)
Klingberg, GunillaMalmö universitet,Odontologiska fakulteten (OD)(Swepub:mau)ac1075 (författare)
Hjern, AndersKarolinska Institutet,Stockholms universitet,Centrum för forskning om ojämlikhet i hälsa (CHESS),Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Centre for Health Equity Studies, Karolinska Institutet/Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden(Swepub:su)ahjer (författare)
Vinnerljung, BoStockholms universitet,Institutionen för socialt arbete - Socialhögskolan,Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Social Work, University of Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden(Swepub:su)bvinn (författare)
Cederlund, AndreasMalmö universitet,Odontologiska fakulteten (OD),National Board of Health and Welfare (Socialstyrelsen), Stockholm, Sweden(Swepub:mau)aj4272 (författare)
Stockholms universitetSociologiska institutionen (creator_code:org_t)

Ingår i:International Journal of Social Welfare: John Wiley & Sons27:4, s. 325-3361369-68661468-2397

Av författaren/redakt...: Berlin, Marie; Mensah, Tita; Lundgren, Frida; Klingberg, Gunil ...; Hjern, Anders; Vinnerljung, Bo; visa fler...; Cederlund, Andre ...; visa färre...

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Av lärosätet: Malmö universitet; Stockholms universitet; Karolinska Institutet

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